If you don't have insurance (as I don't), my doctor told me about a card you can print out from the computer through the Federal Government which has saved me TONS on prescript ions. You just fill...
Geez, I am SO sorry to hear about your neck pain! My mom has had two surgeries already on her neck (she's 79). I hope, hope, hope they figure out what is going on there and actually fix it completely...
Thank you so very, very much, Kitt! :o))) Julie O'...
Thanks for answering! Yes, I am on meds to sleep, but this never happened until the second day I started working for this attorney and I've been on the meds for about 6-ish years for sleep. (Just the...
Hi Pamela, Thanks so much for your response and stopping in! Yeah, I've been diagnosed with IBS, GERD and all that goes with it - just never had the urinary incontinence before on such a regular...
That's a tough one when you've had to stop drinking coffee after having been accustomed to drinking so much. I would definitely ask your doctor about that and let him know it is definitely...
Oh yeah, I'm definitely wearing those, except a cheaper brand that Albertson's carries calls "Equaline" (thank GOD). Not sure if you have Albertson's supermarket where you are but they are 1/2 the...
Thanks LYN, I do believe you're very right! I've been a civil litigation legal secretary for about 25 years and after what happened with the Psychologist and Psychiatrist (my earlier postings, it's...
Hey there, Welcome to the forum, firstly! I've gone through periods of more severe panic attacks where I thought I was having a heart attack, too. my doctor told me years ago that I tend to "not...
Sorry I haven't been here in awhile. My financial situation is such that my friends are converting their garage for me to live in with my beloved cats (blessed be!!). On the other hand, for the first...
I collect comfy beds and fun toys for my cats. >^..^< I have no hobbies anymore. Hard to have hobbies with so many kitty chores! :o) I love my cats. I'm moving in March so any collections I...
Boy, who needs a therapist when I can come here to a group of wise, compassionate and wonderful beings! I feel much better this morning and want to wish EVERYone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah,...
Thanks so much Percycat! Without my grateful journal, I would be totally lost! Blessings to you and wishing you a year where every day is filled with hope, love, happiness and fun! ~ Julie O'...
I haven't been here for awhile - miss you guys. My issue is that my savings is just about drained. I am grateful and thankful to have friends who plan to convert their garage into a studio for me and...
"One day at a time" - that's absolutely right. Okay, so this is a bit off-topic, but my little foster kitten had major eye surgery yesterday for agenesis of both upper eyelids (no upper eyelids), and...
Hey TMJ, When I did have a mouthguard, I was told it isn't meant to take care of the pain, but only to protect your teeth from being ground down to nothing - I was told that from the Specialist I...
Well, for me it was Clonozopam for anxiety. I've been on it for years (always took less than required unless it was a really bad day(s). I've tried several times to wean VERY slowly from it, as well...
Hey there, So sorry to hear about your pain! I herniated a disc in my lower lumbar when I was much younger. The pain meds didn't help, I can't take muscle relaxers (give me serious stomach issues)...
De nada, tmj, Just remember... slooooOOOOOoooowly so as not to pull a muscle. I do them very gently and it's an enormous help. I hope they work for your TMJ, too!!!! :-D...
Hi TMJ, I had some reeeeally bad TMJ pain some years back - at the time didn't know what it was, dentist thought it was an absess, sent me to another dentist who thought the same thing, but wasn't...
LOL Skitt! Well, I live 2 miles from Pismo Beach and our annual "Clam Festival" is coming up! Odd, though, we call ourselves the "clam capital of the world" and yet they are now having to bury clams...
1: First time seeing this gyno (my regular one left his practice to go into special practice when HMO's were bleedind him), well this new gyno was mean, rude - left the clamps hanging out of me for...
Central Coast of California here - we were in the 90's most of last week and it finally started cooling down yesterday. Sunny, breezy and cool. My favorite time of the year! (Of the 2 seasons we get,...
My pop singing us to sleep with Irish Lullabyes . . . Playing with matchbox cars in the clay-cliffs, making little parking lots 'n stuff Sitting outside under the small awning with my oldest brother...
This is just a thought and only a thought - What if we let how we react to our pain define us? I'm only thinking that because pain doesn't have the power and control over our reactions, but we have...
MoreAmor - I have that same thing - after I leave the house, I wonder if I've left something turned on that could catch fire! Man, you are not alone there! Another thing that sets me off for a WEEK...
Hi there and welcome to HealingWell! Although I'm kinda new here as well, I was just thinking that maybe you could start a forum here on Kidney Disease and I bet you'd get a ton of responses. I...
My "Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty" is probably pretty self-explanatory. I Have the legal limit of cats one can have with a permit and also foster cats/kittens from our local Animal Services. I tend to...
Hi Caren- That is a nice quote for sure! Here's one that I just started using as my signature on my e-mails: "My heart remained restless until it rested in God." - Augustine This has truly helped me...
Slow, deep breathing and either counting as you're breathing in and out, or saying "in" "pause" and "out" as you're breating in and out. This keeps your mind distracted from the runaway thoughts. The...
Hi Nytescorpion, Welcome to HealingWell! Just some possibilities as I am in no way an eye expert at all, but it may just be a benign tumor (not cancerous at all), or some debris might have somehow...
Hey MMM, That's so interesting about the [b]Plasmapheresis. Since I've been donating Platelets for the past, about[b] , 8 years every other week, I haven't been sick at all, no colds or anything....
Hi Meg, Not upset, just shocked and feel a little less safe expressing here after observing Peacesoul's post. I take responsibility for my own feelings, so Peacesoul didn't "make" me feel in any...
Ahhhh, other than cat medications and cat chores, I did absolutely nuthin' today! :-D Life is grand!...
I'm sorry to chime in like this, but I'm shocked as well that someone coming here for help is being attacked by a Moderator, and past things of this person's life (that I never would have known about...
Hi there, and welcome! By what you wrote, you've had many very recent HUGE changes in your life - something that can trigger high anxiety with (what I call) runaway thoughts. Firstly, congrats on...
I have been on Lexapro (10 mg) for about 5 years and it has helped SO much with anxiety - mainly with those "runaway thoughts". Because of being unemployed, I tried to very slowly go off of it and as...
Howdy and sorry to hear about your insomnia! I have night terrors w/out sleeping meds and I take Trazodone and Klonapin only, knocks me right out. Wishing you a peaceful night's sleep so that you can...
Hypoglycemia for sure! Those are all the symptoms. My whole family is very hypoglycemic (excepting my pop) and if we don't eat some kind of protein every few hours we feel week, pasty-faced, shaky,...
Howdy! Chiming in a little late here, but yeah, I agree - give them the 8 weeks they need with mama cat. I volunteer at our local shelter and foster kittens who were abandoned, etc., and have had to...
It sounds a lot like carpal AND cubital tunnel syndrome - I have both (Legal Secretary for 23 years, typing, etc.) If all 5 of your fingers are also affected, then it probably is both. Sorry to hear...
Hey there Emz, I've always called this "Runaway thoughts" or "Runaway scenarios" and had them for years. They still try to sneak in, but the skill I practiced and learned to stop them in their tracks...
I haven't heard of it before. I'll be interested to know how it works!...
Oops! And for self-therapy, write 10 things you're grateful for every single morning, no matter how small the thing is. It can be that you have clean clothes, or a puffy-cloud day, anything. THAT is...
Hi ComedyDork! :O) <-------------- I'm a 48 year old dork myself and very proud of it! It's who I am and I like it! It took me yeeeeeeeeeeears to figure out how to let other peoples' thoughts or my...
Depends on your body type. Everyone is different - when they started me on Wellbutrin, I became suicidal (my original problem 5 years ago) and had to immediately stop using it. They say most of these...
p.s. If you tell a Psychiatrist you have thoughts of stabbing someone, no matter how you say it, they may consider you homicidal and commit you to a hospital. I've been in a hospital (suicidal) and I...
Just wanted to add that if CSI and Law & Order are some of the sources of this anxiety, I would definitely stop watching them. I honestly had to stop watching Law & Order (my favorite show) for about...
My middle name is "fog" even before I started taking meds. Have had very short-term memory loss for yeeeeeeeeeeeears. If I have something productive to focus on, it really helps my brain stay active....
Just as a possibility, it may be adhesive capsulitis ("Frozen Shoulder"). I had this very painful thing about 5 years ago and it took 6 months of physical therapy to get it "un" frozen, but there was...